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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL Ar tK WORLDS by EDWIN BALMER synopsis and PHILIP WYLIE Vmitr tha leadership of Col Hendroa. per-o- u Americas scientist, over capo la two Space Ships Just before a cosmic eollUIoa wiped out tb arts, and land ea Broasoa Beta. A smooth, straight metal road war la dls-o- r red. indicating- that whoever once lived oa BroBsoa Beta had swift moving: vehicles. Thousands of giant met, rs hnrtlo through the sky, hut oons f Hendroa's eoloaista is hurt. The meteors are fragments of the destroyed arth's moon. Tour Drake, Hendroa's lieutenant, and Professor Higgins discover a river bottom greea with vege- . by Copyright Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylle. ated - tation. CHAPTER II Continued 3 There were a few bends, however; and open rounding, one of these, they came abruptly upon an object which made both of the men scramble from the road and stand and stare silently. The object was a machine or rather what was left of a machine. It was crushed against a pinnacle of rock at the end of one of the rare curves In the road. The very manner In which It stood against the rock wall suggested bow It had arrived there: It had been one of the vehicles which the creatures of the planet drove or rode, and rounding the curve at too high a speed It bad shot off the highway and smashed Into the wall of stone. The two men bent over It then touched It They exchanged glances without speaking. The thing still glittered In the sunlight the metal which composed it being evidently The predominating color of that metal was crimson, although many parts were steel blue and some were evidently made of copper. An unidentifiable fragment lay on the ground beside it ; and Tony, picking It op, found to bis surprise that It wag extremely light lighter even than aluminum. The engine was twisted and mangled, as was the rest of the car. It was impossible to guess what the original shape of the vehicle had been, but it was conceivable that an expert might decide what type engine had driven It "An automobile," Illggina said at bead-o- n rust-proo- last "With an engine like none I have aver heard of. It must have been ing frightfully fast" go- "Did yon see the wheels?" "They were big," 'They didn't have pneumatic tires. Just a ribbon of some yielding material around them." "Too wouldn't need rubber tires on a road as smooth as this." They walked quickly now and by and by In the distance they saw the summit .of the Ark. They ran to the encampment bringing their news. An hour later nearly every one from the Ark was gathered around the machine. Bates and Maltby, who were perhaps the best engineers and mechanics among them, except Ilendron, stepped out of the circle of fascinated onlookers. Behind them walked Jeremiah Post the metallurgist of the company. These three men, together with Ilendron, began painstakingly and lowly to examine the wreck. Finally Ilendron, after a brief sotto voce colloquy with Post Bates and llaltby, addressed the crowd of people. "Well, friends," he said simply, "un til we have had time to take this apparatus back to camp and study it more thoroughly we will be unable to make a complete report on it But we four are agreed on a good many things that will Interest you. In the Qrst place. Judging from the area of space for passengers and the division of that area whoever occupied and operated WKTJaerriee. upright and that their upper pair of limbs terminated In members which could be used precisely as fingers are used,, is very Illuminating. In fact I won't say that the builders of this very interesting and brilliant vehicle were human beings; but I will say that If the vehicle were Intact It could be operated by a human being. "As for the machine itself. It was made very largely of beryllium. Beryllium was a very common element on earth. It Is, roughly speaking, about half as heavy as aluminum, and about twice as strong as what we called duralumlnum. It was rare and valuable In a pure state only because we had not as yet perfected a way of extracting beryllium cheaply. The principle upon which this vehicle was propelled is obvious in the sense that we are all agreed upon what was accomplished by Its engine, although further rtudy will be necessary to reveal precisely how It was done. "For the sake of those who are not physicists or engineers, I will explain that except for the atomic energy which we ourselves perfected, all terrestrial energy was thermal energy. In other words. It came from the sua OU represents the energy stored up in minute vegetation. Coal, the sunlight stored in larger plants. Water power is derived from kinetic energy in water elevated by the sun to high places. Tldul energy may be also excepted, as It was caused by the attraction of the moon. Since we found electricity a more useful form of energy, we bent our efforts to the changing of thermal energy into electrical energy. Thus we burn coal and oil to run steam turbines, which In turn run dynamos, which generate electricity. We run other turbines by water power, not to use their force directly, but in order again to generate electricity. "AH those systems were inefflcleht. The loss of energy between the waterfall and the power line, between the and the light bulb, was tremendous. It has been the dream of every physicist to develop a system whereby thermal energy could be converted directly Into electrical energy. For most of yon It will probably be difficult to understand more than that the engine of this vehicle of the ancient Inhabitants of Bronson Beta was run by that precise method. Its machinery was capable of taking the energy of heat and turning It in simple steps, Into electricity." Cole Ilendron glanced at Duquesne and Von Belts, who stood near the vehicle. He spoke as if to them: "A stream of superheated, ionized steam was discharged at a tremendous velocity upon a dielectric, and the Induced current ran the driving motor." lie turned to the others. "As soon as we can spare the time I will have this machine studied in complete detail, but Just now planting beans Is more Imfire-bo- wheel which has been broken off. This It Whether the creatures on Bronson. Beta had hands and feet like ours cannot be said. However, that tny hud four limns, that they were able to sit is take in tablets, form a diet nourishing, beyond doubt but tiresome In the extreme. "Some of us still sleep in the Ark. Some sleep in the observatory and some in two different groups of tents. We remain scattered because of the possibility of s meteoric shower. "One of the small atomic engines Hendron brought has been converted Into the motor of a tractor like machine which pulls a fiat trailer back and forth to the river val four-wheele- d ley. "Tony and twenty other men and that river valley. They tractor to plow and already they have several hundred acres onder cultivation. They work franticallynot knowing how long the growing season will be knowing only that our survival depends upon their success. None of us has yet adjusted him self to the difference In the length of the day. so that the hours of light seem Interminable, and we reach darkness women live in have used the Jfw Miff portant" , In Eliot James' diary appears the following entry. It Is dated Day No. 14: "We have been here two weeks. We have been working furiously. "Great cranes surmount the top of the Ark. Already the uppermost layer has been removed and reassembled on the ground. Our settlement looks like a shipbuilding yard, but I think all our hearts are heavy with the knowledge that we are not building, but wrecking our ship. We have cut off escape to anything else. We have committed our selves to life here. "The food we eat Is monotonous. No dietitian could give us a better balanced diet; but on the other hand, none of us Is able to gratify those dally trifling appetites which were unimportant on earth, hut which up here as sume great proportions. Bread and beans and Johnny-cakand oiittiienl and bacon and lentil soup and awed chocolate iiml rice, together with yeiixt. which we cultivate and put tit. prevent e pellugnt. ami other Itiiiutn. which r..- .e than our any other fellowship -little boy and girl The children-t- he ht-- rs we whom, thank tiod. emotlonaJ the bright lights in our their amusing gloom. Their eagerness, and af loyalty constant their behavior, than more powerfully us fection. point hope. else to an untiring anything -ere more children- -lf if there new membabes were born among us. feeling of awful this race, our of bers would alio But lifted. he the end might " Eve? here? dare to bear children Cottons of New Style Importance -- v CHERIE NICHOLAS fehir-ley?- note, Eliot James, on this despairing record. bis interrupted Two matters recommend themselves confor comment at this point One , obedient the cerns Kyto. as Japanese, who had so honorably, mashis followed said, would have be ter's cause and was now one of the mysteries of Bronson Beta. Everybody talked of Kyto. Naturally, the little servant No Jap was no longer Tony's servants again. His have one would handlness In the matter of preparation of meals had made him gravitate to the commissariat in the first few days. quick-witted- SSSJ mm4 ...... " jji.li '''"J i 4 MevJi 1... S'W1'',N" fjl cottons were never as they are this veer, when their new fashion Importance has caused them to be styled as carefully and as beautifully, and often as formally as the most expensive silks. They have blossomed forth in the stores in such allurforing array that even if you have of bobbin the to thread how gotten your sewing machine, you will find s for your yourself buying summer own sports and daytime clothes and for pretty frocks for your little girl. With cottons being declared so really this season, at the same time So practical and inexpensive, It is no wonder they are creating such furore In the style realm, they are Then, too, they simply irreslstable. Include such a wide variety of weaves to choose from, there Is not the slightest difficulty in finding a proper kind for any pattern you may have selected. Seersuckers are of course big news and there are several types that merit attention for street and sports wear. The shiroshakker plaids, in seersucker, are very equally attractive in two tones of one color or In designs in bold or small patterns. The sports dress, to the left In the group Illustrated, is made of this sort of plaid seersucker. It buttons all the way down the back and proves Its practicability In that It may be worn separately or over a play suit of halter bodice and shorts. The ensemble Is smart for beach, bicycling or tennis. Anyone who can sew even a little bit can easily make this simply though effectively styled dress. SUMMER the Little Boy and Girl, Who, Thank God, Ara the Bright Lights In Our Emotional Gloom." "The Children x It Had Been One of the Vehicles the Creatures of the Planet Drove or Rode, and Rounding the Curve at Too High a Speed, It Had Shot Off the Highway and Smashed Head On Into the Wall of Stone. this machine could not have been much larger or much smaller than ourselves. Ton will note," he walked over to the wreck and pointed, "that although the force of the crash has collapsed this portion of the vehicle, we may assume that Its operator sat here. "I say sat because this Is manifestly a seat The vehicle steered with a COLLIDE "or -. and Still have the nope o A have abandoned the hope dress-length- exhausted. I have seen workers on the Ark, and men and women on the farm, fall asleep at their Jobs In the later afternoon. On the other hand, since we are accustomed to sleeping at the most nine or ten hours, we are apt to wake up long before dawn. We have ameliorated this problem somewhat by dividing the labor Into eight-hou- r shifts, with eight more hours for recreation. "The soil at the farm was Judged excellent by the chemists. Bacteria have been sowed In it Ants have been loosed there. Our grasshoppers are fattening on the local flora ; their buzzing is the only familiar living sound except our own and the occasional noises of the animals we tend. "We would like to restock the sea with fish, but we are doubtful about the possibility of establishing a biological economy there. We have numerous fishes In an aquarium on the Ark, and perhaps at some later date we shall make the attempt "Shirley Cotton, has fallen more or less In love With Tony. I would not enter this in a diary that Is perhaps to be history, except for the fact that she announced it to every one the other day and said that she was going to move for a system ol marriage codes by which she could compel him to become her mate as well as Eve Hendron's. It must have saddened Eve, although she has said nothing about it and appears not to mind. But Shirley has pointed out what every one has often thought privately there are thirteen more women than men. All the women but five are under forty years of age. Nearly half the men are more than fifty. Our other party, which ap pears lost contained more or me younger people. "So at the end of two weeks we find ourselves disturbed by many questions, working hard and realizing slowly the tremendous difficulties to be conquered. "Yesterday and the day before it rained. The days were like any rainy ones on earth, with gray skies and an Incessant heavy drlwzle that crescen-doe- d to occasional downpours. The river at the farm rose. When the skies cleared Tony was Jubilant His wide acres were covered with even rows of green and Indeed the farm was a beautiful spectacle, "We have moved our animals to the farm and put them In stockades where some the most valuable, fortunately, the cows and sheep thrive so far, ou the ferns and mosses which we have mixed with the last of the fodder brought from earth. Other of the animals do not do so well ; and If they die. It is the last we shall see of their species. But shall we ourselves survive? "On reading the above. It seems that my tone Is melancholy; and 1 feel that It cannot be otherwise. Pressure of work and the reuction to our months of strain and danger, and contemplation of the awful though splendid perils of the flight from earth, have brought about this state of mind. We may be nre. for all we know the only living. Intelligent being In all the cosmos; one hundred and three of us ninny past the prime of life stranded In this solitude with two cows, two sheep, two doer, a few ants, grasshop-mt.- , fungi, bacteria iinil bees that we tmw brought with lis. We nre now fel-lir,- ! Il'.e grinding despair thllt ciuiia- v .!' m st uti" voeit that we can : t But It began to appear at once that Kyto was more than a good cook. On the third day, when Shirley Cotton had been Instructed to Inform Kyto on the matter of vitamins and balanced diets, she discovered that he knew fully as much about the subject as she. His budgeting of the food supply was a masterpiece. Indeed the eventual discoveries about Kyto surpassed even the wildest guesses of the colonists. The other matter concerned Hendron. Others beside Eliot James had observed, and with concern, the change In the leader; and they began to discuss It Tony knew that he himself was talked of as a candidate for commander of the group governor of the cam If Hendron was to be replaced; so Tony was especially careful to refrain from criticism. In addition to his sin cere loyalty and devotion to Hendron, there was the further fact that Eve became even more frantically devoted to her father as his difficulties increased. "Tony," she asked him, "what do they the opposition say about Father? They want another leader; Isn't that it?" "No," denied Tony. "They want him to lead again; that's all He's not doing It now as 'ie did, you know." "But he will again! They're so unfair to Father I" Eve cried. "How much more of a man can they expect? He brought us all through the greatest venture and Journey of mankind; and they complain that now he rests a little, that he does not Immediately explore. Does it occur to nobody that perhaps Father Is too wise to explore or to permit others to wander It must not be done now; and yet And you know why." "Yes." said Tony; for he was too familiar with Hendron's fears which were these : since the spores of certain plants had manifestly survived upon Bronson Beta, It was probable up to the practical point of certainty that spores of disease-Inducin- g bacteria also had survived. These would bt found where the previous "hosts" of the bacteria had dwelt and died that la, In the villages and the cities of the Other People, So Hendron. In this new mood of hla feared the finding of dwellings of the Other People; 'e forbade, absolutely, further exploration. Hendron was tired ; he had borne too much ; he would risk no more. He became obsessed with a passion to preserve and keep safe these followers of his. whom he considered the last survivors of the human race. Yet against all Hendron's care and .. ... runttnn .Ih aiuc tu ... Ule camp UQ the morning of the twentieth day. two ere uiumi lying in a strange uikii stupor. They were Bates and Jeremiah Post Before sunset twenty more both men and women were afflicted, and the physicians had Isolated all the sick and ailing. The epidemic might be. Dodson an nounced, due to an Infection carried from the world and which had developed on this new planet and which. In the strange environment exhibited different characteristics. It might b caused by some Infective ageat en countered on Bronson Beta. i high-fashio- n d varl-colore- d TO BB CONTINUES. d flaxon fin In very sheer yet You will enjoy a dress batistes 116 stripes. this for summer daytime and specti wear. One of the fascln: i tlons of stripes is they make up i i is effectively. The gown Illustrated exception to the rule. This stripf! batiste comes In red or blue wih white or yellow, also brown wli t orange. The tie and belt of organd in a matching shade add a pleasiif sleev trimming touch. Pleated short and buttons all the way down the fro I are nice details. ' The little girl is wearing a pre! Of lightwelg made Is frnelr which crossbar cotton seersucker in red af white. The collar and pocket piped with bright red. tor-spor- f ; s C Western Newspaper Untoa. FASHIONS HAVE FLOWER JEWELRY NEW ACCENTS OF COL Br CHEBIE NICHOLAS White Is still the top, hut there some new notes creeping into the sot They will never be able to siw have nf place that pure white accents for so long, but they are a grea to those whose skin docsn t tae "'"i to white. With navy, with Dim nrlH hrnirn a Aafn sllllde Of Pilfe Ca'' or desert rose Is used. In pique sMj mntDo aUota nnrt collars and ounu a fr of flowers for the neckline of fhomni la the other color tnac plctorf stealing into the accessory tna silk or rough the real thing Ieatf the When flved th anrne tone. ascot sea and belts makes is used it to be worn with navy or graJ. . hnnnJs doves and ba; tni, "7 Just as there are new colorsrtiftr -i cessorles. so are there new hnolorir Thorp la A COPPPry Sniae or Mnrfa hoonHfuiiv with brown ,..,1,1,..--, tn ho worn witn "'t shoes. 1 oring? .lu Lighter in weight are the crepecors seersucker variations with corded lines emphasizing the color stripes In eltbe pastel or high shades. You will ha?! a difficult time choosing between the colorful stripe and the gay seersuctei plaids. A dress of each is the best solution to this problem. Flaxon batistes, which you probabl wore In rosebud-spriggeprints whei you wore braids and hair ribbons, an Just as cool and sheer and dainty ai ever. This year they are especiall, chic in new lively plaid and floral d d signs. The best of It is you can pend on them being In reliable faa colors. That smart tailored budget froc which we are picturing to the righ Is made of one of the fashlonabl 1 (h) Influence Noted r Dress in v ai iu felt Pannfr f ' ii I 1 ' .11111111 A- The new gold A11 fittrflpHva Jtrrvn ...111 mil ill at n , ! I , flower-Jewelr- ' ieau- I I - i ' ' Is so y i lOV" . WllQ .l 11 centers of flowers are" of turuuolse coral anl pearls. The clips fastening this charm lng black cape with matching halo hat which has a large clip t the back, the bracelets and the ornaments on the lace bag show how decorative and flattering a touch these pretty gold flowers impart to milady's costume, with the white chiffon even lng gowns you couldn't think of anything more pleasing to wear than a gold flower Jewelry ensemble as here pictured. This stunning lace ensemble was shown In the style lace-and-n- Jewel-centere- d cape-and-b- revue In connection with the Lace ball recently given In New York. I" ..f munmice is me sorts of angles of female stun, C season. Blouses go in for , linniled tight ' wrist, embroidery of IS used on dresses III ' 1 nmn results One of the smartest tel arbu - sports oxroras nave 1 a If th( - "Altec Vv .. u .. 11 0 . ui" piece Paqnln " shade of blue. n small kit P given fulness by front. The rounded w by a sunburst or of blue i edged by a band on metal which continues epaulette. an form to shoulder , f higneff ' Gay blouses of chinon as nrnniiM. chartreuse, mine root ana cora. fully smart witn summer. -vJl ary on. wlida "Wlate Ms y tli of bio, ""nun DO We, |
